Chapter 5 of The Black Bag is here in full — 409 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 5 of The Black Bag is here in full — 409 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Calendar dropped his right hand into his top-coat pocket. “Just a minute,” he said sweetly, and Mulready stopped. Abruptly the fat adventurer’s smoldering resentment leaped in flame. “That’ll be about all, Mr. Mulready! ’Bout face, you hound, and get into that boat!
Chapter 5 of The Black Bag is here in full — 409 sentences across 82 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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quickly and without warning
From this reading “Abruptly the fat adventurer’s smoldering resentment leaped in flame.”
(sports) a division during which one team is on the offensive
From this reading “’Bout face, you hound, and get into that boat!”
a system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year
From this reading “Calendar dropped his right hand into his top-coat pocket.”
any of several breeds of dog used for hunting typically having large drooping ears
From this reading “’Bout face, you hound, and get into that boat!”
past form of “leap” — move forward by leaps and bounds
From this reading “Abruptly the fat adventurer’s smoldering resentment leaped in flame.”
a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
From this reading “Abruptly the fat adventurer’s smoldering resentment leaped in flame.”
showing scarcely suppressed anger
From this reading “Abruptly the fat adventurer’s smoldering resentment leaped in flame.”
in an affectionate or loving manner (“sweet” is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of “sweetly”)
From this reading ““Just a minute,” he said sweetly, and Mulready stopped.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading “Just a minute,” he said sweetly, and Mulready stopped.
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading “That’ll be about all, Mr. Mulready!
quickly and without warning
From this reading Abruptly the fat adventurer’s smoldering resentment leaped in flame.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Abruptly the fat adventurer’s smoldering resentment leaped in flame.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading “That’ll be about all, Mr. Mulready!
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading “Just a minute,” he said sweetly, and Mulready stopped.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading “That’ll be about all, Mr. Mulready!
a small vessel for travel on water
From this reading ’Bout face, you hound, and get into that boat!
(sports) a division during which one team is on the offensive
From this reading ’Bout face, you hound, and get into that boat!
a system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year
From this reading Calendar dropped his right hand into his top-coat pocket.
inflected form of “drop” — let fall to the ground
From this reading Calendar dropped his right hand into his top-coat pocket.
the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
From this reading ’Bout face, you hound, and get into that boat!
having an (over)abundance of flesh
From this reading Abruptly the fat adventurer’s smoldering resentment leaped in flame.
A hot glowing body of ignited gas produced by fire.
From this reading Abruptly the fat adventurer’s smoldering resentment leaped in flame.
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading ’Bout face, you hound, and get into that boat!
the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
From this reading Calendar dropped his right hand into his top-coat pocket.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading “Just a minute,” he said sweetly, and Mulready stopped.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Calendar dropped his right hand into his top-coat pocket.
any of several breeds of dog used for hunting typically having large drooping ears
From this reading ’Bout face, you hound, and get into that boat!
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Abruptly the fat adventurer’s smoldering resentment leaped in flame.
moving to the inside of something
From this reading Calendar dropped his right hand into his top-coat pocket.
and nothing more
From this reading “Just a minute,” he said sweetly, and Mulready stopped.
past form of “leap” — move forward by leaps and bounds
From this reading Abruptly the fat adventurer’s smoldering resentment leaped in flame.
a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
From this reading “Just a minute,” he said sweetly, and Mulready stopped.
a form of address for a man
From this reading “That’ll be about all, Mr. Mulready!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “Just a minute,” he said sweetly, and Mulready stopped.
a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles
From this reading Calendar dropped his right hand into his top-coat pocket.
a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
From this reading Abruptly the fat adventurer’s smoldering resentment leaped in flame.
precisely, exactly
From this reading Calendar dropped his right hand into his top-coat pocket.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading “Just a minute,” he said sweetly, and Mulready stopped.
showing scarcely suppressed anger
From this reading Abruptly the fat adventurer’s smoldering resentment leaped in flame.
(of a nose) blocked
From this reading “Just a minute,” he said sweetly, and Mulready stopped.
in an affectionate or loving manner (“sweet” is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of “sweetly”)
From this reading “Just a minute,” he said sweetly, and Mulready stopped.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading ’Bout face, you hound, and get into that boat!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “That’ll be about all, Mr. Mulready!
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading Abruptly the fat adventurer’s smoldering resentment leaped in flame.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Calendar dropped his right hand into his top-coat pocket.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading ’Bout face, you hound, and get into that boat!
Chapter 5 of The Black Bag by Louis Joseph Vance holds 409 sentences, grouped into 82 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 5 holds 409 sentences of The Black Bag, unabridged, divided into 82 reading sections.
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